Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

the barriers are now very low for actually forming a business, as is the cost. when many vaporware and vapor-businesses crash or fade away they leave damage, possibly fueling the recession (remember 1999-2000? funding is more prevalent than ever for early early (read “ideas”) stage companies. micro funding ($25K).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly. The Funding Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

When new companies enter the market they really have no chance to initially unseat the incumbents because the performance gap is too large and the costs / time of catching up too unachievable. In 1999-2000 they weren’t doing enterprise-wide installations at Merrill Lynch, Dell and Cisco. Enter Salesforce.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We paid 10% of the normal costs for the software and that money was for software support. A 90% disruption in cost spawns innovation – believe me.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Accel Partners VII (1999): 89% (74%). Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

and with inherent cost disadvantages relative to international competition in the pricing of IC’s, hardware assurance for critical infrastructure in the U.S. ceded the center of gravity in the semiconductor fabrication industry to Asia many years ago. “ WESLEY K.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . That exodus has already begun, and it is evident in many statistics that testify to America’s slipping global competitiveness since 1999.

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IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

One of my favorite lines in buried in the middle: “I’ve heard enough companies say “we simply can’t cut costs or it will hurt the long-term potential of the business” to get a wry smile. Pragmatic cost cuts are always possible and often productive.” I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005.

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Cap Table Down Round Liquidation Preference Founder 70

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized. Copyright © 2000 inc.com.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line. Another reason was because when I started my business it was 2000, and people used the phone more, I wanted something short and sweet I could say while answering the phone all day. Thanks to Julie Rustad, Julie Originals LLC. #4

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. What's happened in the last decade, the cost of launching an Internet product - forget other technologies, we'll focus on Internet - has dropped from $5 million to $500,000 in 2005, to $50,000 today," he continues.

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IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? The difference between many of these companies and what we saw back in 1999 is that there are real revenues and revenue growth at many of these companies--and their costs are largely in people, which can always be trimmed down. Are we in a bubble? Valuations. stock market."

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Angel Investor Valuation Startup Revenue 104

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million! Gross Profit. $(60).

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Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

The Entrepreneurial Mind

JANUARY 4, 2011

Charlie Crystle shares his own sorted exit story from the sale of his business in an article at CNN Money : "My software company ChiliSoft sold for $100 million in 2000. Notably, from December 1999 to May 2000, my stake dropped from 40% to 15% when the deal. Some of what seems trivial now could cost you dearly later.

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Sales Employee Software Hiring 64

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I knew it was an easy fix, so I really didn’t want to pay for a tow truck in addition to the cost of the repair. It struck me that had the technology existed, travelers could have taken advantage of our empty aircraft to get back to London and then the aircraft could be dropped in Oxford, with minimal additional cost.

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Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Diego Basch

MAY 3, 2012

On March 20th, 2000 Inktomi had a market capitalization of 25 billion dollars. In 1999 Google was gaining popularity because they were solving exactly this problem. I still have an email in which I outlined a proposal to build a snippets and caching cluster, which was nixed because of costs. Life was good. What happened?

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Caching Algorithm Engineer Search 78

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. App is one step forward, two steps back – In 1999 I launched my first company, BuildOnline, a SaaS-based (back then we were ASP’s) content management platform for large-scale engineering and construction projects.

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Flash Mobile Application Development Cloud 326

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And no, that doesn’t mean that the IPO is underpriced; recall that there is no cost to putting in an “order” in the IPO book, so the incentive for the buy-side is to put in as large a request as possible with the understanding that they will ultimately be cut back by the underwriters. sell-side research) for free. What do the data tell us?

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 1999 : Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. cents or 6.25

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Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing 31

Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 30, 2011

When me and the gang were starting Spunlogic back in 1999 and 2000 , I was coaching tennis at a country club to try to make ends meet because, well, we couldn’t really afford to pay ourselves. It was her tenaciousness and “win at all costs&# focus that made her a great player. She was a great talent.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. The very modest salary that I drew didn’t come anywhere near meeting my monthly costs so I had to eat into savings. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 11, 2009

companies pay more to intermediaries for the same service, because it will still cost them less than paying the higher tax burden imposed by the Congress. In effect, the unintended consequence will be to permanently keep these assets offshore and make U.S.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

" Web 1999/2000. So as you can see, there are more sophisticated users, it costs significantly less to launch a new service/product, and many of the business models are proven to reach profitability. Critical Mass. GoToMarket Philosophy. If you build it, they will come. Release early and release often. Tech platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. But this was early 2000 and our US competitors had already closed rounds North of $45 million.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley San Diego Non-Compete 308

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). I started a consulting firm called Global Marketing Resources, LLC in 2000 as source for additional income while I was a corporate executive. Photo Credit: Ajay Prasad.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When Iridium was first conceived inside Motorola in 1987, worldwide cell phone coverage was sparse, calls were unreliable and per minute costs were expensive. Cell phone handsets were the size of a lunch box and cost thousand of dollars. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Motorola Dynatac 8000x ~1987.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. At the beginning of the year 2000, there were 133 venture capital firms in Israel, today there are less than 30.

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Venture Capital New Zealand Startup 100

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash. In 1993, Word 6.0

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

VC Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2014

Last year, the VC industry partied like its 1999. 222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000. 222 firms held initial public offerings last year, raising $55 Billion, the most since 406 companies went public for $97 million in 2000.

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Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IPO 155

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me.

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Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6%

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley California Oakland 20

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Mostly I think new types of brokers will emerge and this will drive down transactions costs, improve services and make it easier to do business with people around the globe. Ask yourself this — how did it go when a bunch of Internet companies when public in 1998–1999 with limited revenues or oversight? Regulation will come.

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